After the agreement was signed – a retaliation from Washington for Russia’s conflict with Georgia – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the agreement targets his country. Washington, however, claims the defense shield is designed to thwart so-called “rogue regimes.”

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Eric Margolis, a contributing editor to The American Conservative magazine, comments on these rumblings of a new Cold War.

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